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Kensington 1937
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Kensington Borough]
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THE PREVENTION OF, AND CONTROL OVER, INFECTIOUS
DISEASE.
Notifiable Infectious Diseases.
The following diseases are compulsorily notifiable in Kensington:—
Acute encephalitis lethargica. Influenzal pneumonia.
Acute polio-encephalitis. Malaria.
Acute polio-myelitis. Membranous croup.
Acute primary pneumonia. Ophthalmia neonatorum.
Acute rheumatism. Plague.
Anthrax. Puerperal fever.
Cerebro-spinal fever. Puerperal pyrexia.
Cholera. Relapsing fever.
Continued fever. Scarlatina or scarlet fever.
Diphtheria Smallpox.
Dysentery. Tuberculosis.
Erysipelas. Typhoid or enteric fever.
Glanders. Typhus fever.
Hydrophobia. Zymotic enteritis.
| Year | Small-pox. | Scarlet fever. | Diph-theria. | Enteric fever. | Erysipelas. | Ophthalmia neonatorum. | Puerperal fever. | Puerperal pyrexia. | Pneumonia. | Malaria. | Encephalitis lethargica. | P. m'itis & polioencephalitis. | Acute rheumatism. | Cerebro spinal meningitis. | Dysentery. | *Enteritis. | Total. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1933 | — | 617 | 295 | 11 | 97 | 6 | 10 | 49 | 208 | 1 | — | 1 | 62 | 5 | 6 | 106 | 1,474 |
| 1934 | — | 549 | 360 | 7 | 80 | 10 | 4 | 20 | 177 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 56 | 4 | 5 | 52 | 1,330 |
| 1935 | — | 304 | 338 | 7 | 63 | 11 | 7 | 30 | 136 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 28 | 2 | 6 | 59 | 999 |
| 1936 | — | 289 | 142 | 8 | 66 | 12 | 13 | 21 | 177 | 2 | — | 3 | 48 | 6 | 7 | 78 | 872 |
| 1937 | — | 233 | 193 | 14 | 72 | 8 | 11 | 35 | 216 | 3 | — | 8 | 52 | 3 | 64 | 84 | 996 |
| Cases of mistaken diagnosis are excluded from the above table. ‡ Acute rheumatism in children under 16 years of age became notifiable in Kensington in 1927. It is also notifiable in Paddington and Holborn. * Zymotic enteritis in children under 5 years of age became notifiable in Kensington in 1924. The other London boroughs in which this disease is notifiable are Fulham, Finsbury, Poplar. Southwark, Deptford, Greenwich, Woolwich and Paddington. | |||||||||||||||||
| Four Weeks ending | Smallpox. | Scarlet fever. | Diphtheria. | Enteric fever. | Ery sipelas. | Ophthalmia neonatorum. | Puerperal fever. | Puerperal pyrexia. | Pneumonia. | Malaria. | Encephalitis lethargica. | Polio myelitis. | Acute rheumatism. | Cerebro spinal meningitis. | Dysentery. | Enteritis. | Total. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 30 | - | 16 | 18 | - | - | 2 | 1 | 73 | - | - | - | 5 | 2 | 7 | 2 | 133 | |
| February 27 | - | 31 | 20 | 1 | 5 | - | 2 | 2 | 21 | - | - | 2 | 6 | - | 1 | 2 | 93 |
| March 27 | - | 23 | 36 | - | 7 | l | - | 2 | 11 | 1 | - | - | 5 | - | - | 2 | 88 |
| April 24 | - | 26 | 22 | - | 10 | - | - | 1 | 12 | - | - | - | 3 | - | - | 5 | 79 |
| May 22 | — | 16 | 19 | 1 | 8 | 1 | — | 2 | 15 | - | — | - | 3 | 1 | - | 5 | 71 |
| June 19 | — | 19 | 15 | - | 8 | 2 | — | 2 | 14 | - | - | — | 1 | - | - | 12 | 73 |
| July 17 | - | 15 | 12 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 9 | - | - | 1 | 5 | - | - | 6 | 59 |
| August 14 | - | 13 | 6 | - | 4 | 1 | - | 3 | 6 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 9 | 43 |
| September 11 | - | 13 | 7 | 3 | 5 | - | 2 | 3 | 8 | 1 | - | 1 | 5 | - | 1 | 5 | 54 |
| October 9 | -_ | 15 | 11 | - | 2 | - | 2 | 3 | 2 | - | - | 3 | 2 | - | 4 | 12 | 56 |
| November 6 | - | 16 | 6 | 1 | 2 | - | 1 | 6 | 5 | - | - | - | 7 | - | 7 | 15 | 66 |
| December 4 | - | 18 | 14 | 4 | 6 | - | 1 | 3 | 15 | 1 | - | 1 | 7 | - | 27 | 5 | 102 |
| January 1 | — | 12 | 7 | 1 | 6 | 1 | — | 4 | 25 | — | - | — | 2 | - | 17 | 4 | 79 |
| Totals | — | 233 | 193 | 14 | 72 | 8 | 11 | 35 | 216 | 3 | - | 8 | 52 | 3 | 64 | 84 | 996 |
| Cases of mistaken diagnosis are excluded from the above table. | |||||||||||||||||